Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 2 | Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ . |
| 3 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 4 | His European contacts have given him ideas — such as the Dutch government 's research projects to look into the specific health needs of the country 's future . |
| 5 | He would have preferred a pub , but somehow that writing-paper had intimidated him so he had agreed to a restaurant . |
| 6 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 7 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 8 | He could have sworn , though it sounded silly , that Tace 's eyes with their hooded , ironical gaze , had compelled him to approach , and Tace 's mobile lips had adjured him , " Buy me ! " |
| 9 | ‘ Wo n't Mr Gajdusek be annoyed that it 's not a professional journalist coming to interview him ? ’ |
| 10 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 11 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 13 | He had been pathetically shy and awkward , and one particularly painful experience had sent him back to his lonely flat with the firm belief that he would die a bachelor . |
| 14 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 15 | Etienne de Vignolles , known by the name of La Hire which his Burgundian enemies had given him , brought off a spectacular stroke with the capture of Château-Gaillard , on the river Seine , in 1430 , while in the following year Ambroise de Lore and his band travelled across much of Normandy to attack a fair near Caen , before retreating in good order with their prisoners . |
| 16 | His experience of flying this route has led him to conclude that the bravery and daring of the crews who took [ part in these raids was quite remarkable and deserves to be more widely known . |
| 17 | Her remote yet detached look seemed to make him uncomfortable . |
| 18 | Another hour had taken him to a five-mile strip of dual carriageway cut through downland . |
| 19 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 20 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
| 21 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
| 22 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 23 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 24 | This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty . |
| 25 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |
| 26 | His ear confirmed what the electronic bug had told him shortly before he had entered the suite , namely that there was no sound of movement from within the bedroom , or its adjacent bathroom . |
| 27 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 28 | The last few months had taught him quite clearly that a good knowledge of writing , reading and arithmetic was no longer enough . |
| 29 | But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual . |
| 30 | Probably the Khan will give Nogai some work to do to keep him occupied until we return from Kinsai , but we could just as easily find the whole pack of them travelling with us to the capital . |